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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 275, 期 30, 页码 22615-22618出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.C000279200
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Iron-sulfur proteins are present in a wide variety of organisms and are known to play important physiological roles, not only in electron transfer and metabolic reactions, but also in transcriptional regulation. However, little is known about how iron-sulfur clusters themselves are synthesized and assembled within polypeptides. Here we show that a [2Fe-2S] cluster-containing NifU of cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803, SyNifU, possesses the ability to deliver its [2Fe-2S] cluster to an apoferredoxin without the aid of other proteinaceous or nonproteinaceous factor(s), Upon delivery the reconstituted holoferredoxin regained electron transfer ability. The [2Fe-2S] cluster contained within SyNifU was labile upon exposure to the iron-chelating reagent EDTA, suggesting that the iron-sulfur cluster is abnormally exposed to solvent. We propose that NifU serves as a scaffold for iron-sulfur cluster assembly and functions as a mediator for iron-sulfur cluster delivery.
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